Abstract

Contemporary business need is text analytics, Data Collection is the very first step which needs to be accomplished for text analytics. Sources of data are social media, blogs, news articles, emails and search engines, from which the data can be gathered for analysis. Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook holds enormous amount of data which can be turned into business value. Users of social media post their opinions towards any product, person or organization on such social media. Another significant area is search engines, which are also a beneficial source to retrieve information considering any domains. In this paper we discuss the APIs used to gather data from social medias such as Twitter, Facebook and Bing Engines. We are presenting the process of data collection from Twitter, Facebook and Bing Search Engines implementations.